Rodrıguez Mesa, Francisco Jose.
Elisa Borsari, ed. En lengua vulgar castellana traduzido: Ensayos sobre la actividad traductora durante la Edad Media (San Millan de la Cogolla: Cilengua, 2015), pp. 121–33.
Evaluates Chaucer's strategies of adapting his Italian sources in ClT. He uses three paratexts to adjust the original story to the specific narratological and structural microcosm of CT: ClP, the conclusion explaining what Petrarch meant in…
Defines and classifies various kinds of comedy according to their natures, subject matters, and social functions; then surveys this variety in the English literary tradition from the Middle Ages to 1970. Describes Chaucer's comedy (pp. 67-75) as…
Roe, Charles Henry.
Ph.D. dissertation (University of Leeds, 2021), Dissertation Abstracts International C83.08(E). [vii], 299 pp. Freely accessible at https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/29392/ (accessed February 1, 2025).
Examines Gower's and Chaucer's uses of the conventions of "dits amoureux" and their composition of "religious pastoralia," especially in the "Confessio Amantis" and CT, respectively, where Gower integrates "his satirical and devotional writings,…
Roe, John, ed.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Includes discussion (pp. 35-41) of the influence of Chaucer's account of Lucrece (LGW) on Shakespeare's "The Rape of Lucrece," focusing on Chaucer's "particularly sympathetic defence" of Lucrece, despite his overstating of St. Augustine's compassion…
Rofheart, Martha.
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1973.
Historical novel about the life of Owen Glendower (Owen ap Griffith of Wales), presented as a series of first-person recollections by Glendower and several people of his time. Chapter 2 is "Told by Geoffrey Chaucer, squire, customs clerk,…
Includes ten short stories, plus a Prologue and an Epilogue, all overtly modeled in topic and tone on CT and Boccaccio's "Decameron," both works referred to in the Prologue and alluded to in titles such as "The Reeve's Sister's Tale."
Presents a new interpretation of the historical basis of the canon from "Pars secunda" of CYT, while emphasizing Chaucer's own historical context of being at
the center of a network of connections at court and elsewhere.
Roger, Euan, and Andrew Prescott
Chaucer Review 57 (2022): 498-526.
Highlights the amount of potential material in The National Archives as compared to more traditional repositories for high-value manuscripts. Considers approaches to find and use this material with new examples for Chaucer, Gower, and Skelton.
Roger, Euan, and Sebastian Sobecki.
Chaucer Review 57 (2022): 407-37.
Examines newly discovered documents to argue that Chaucer and Cecily Chaumpaigne were both party to Staundon's legal maneuvers, and that, because of the Statute of Laborers, Chaumpaigne's quit claim offered a resolution. Presents a reappraisal of…
Gathers together previously known documents concerning Cecily Chaumpaigne with newly discovered documents. Documents are transcribed and translations provided.
Rogers, Cynthia A.
Dissertation Abstracts International A76.11 (2015): n.p.
Explores a Middle English scrapbook from the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries that includes some Chaucerian love literature, and considers the book's role in a performance of gentility, particularly on the part of its women readers.
Rogers, Cynthia A.
Chaucer Review 51.2 (2016): 187-208.
Argues that Pity is both a "clever critique" of the French lyric genre of complaint and "loving homage" to it, assessing aspects of exaggeration, repetition, structure, conventional theme and diction, wordplay, etc. as evidence that the poem evokes…
Rogers, Cynthia A.
Notes and Queries 265 (2020): 195-98.
Reviews how, in ten manuscript witnesses, the sixty-eight stanzas of "Letter" are misordered, in four distinct ways, three of which stem from collation errors. Though "unfortunate" for the poem, the errors "provide another few data points" regarding…
Rogers, Cynthia A.
Valerie B. Johnson and Kara L. McShane, eds. Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture: Essays on Marginality, Difference, and Reading Practices in Honor of Thomas Hahn (Boston: De Gruyter; Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute, 2022), pp. 183-202.
Focuses on the "outcast" lyrics of the Findern manuscript (Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.1.6), i.e., those ""overlooked" poems as they appear among works by Chaucer and others. Analyzes how the lyrics "respond" to the works they accompany…
Rogers, Franklin R.
Journal of English and Germanic Philology 58 (1959): 49-59.
Analyzes the dialect forms and textual variants of the "Tale of Gamelyn" in four of the twenty-five CT manuscripts that contain it (Ha4 Cp La Pw), arguing that, in "Gamelyn," these manuscripts evince a textual tradition and editorial practice which…
Rogers, H. L.
G. A. Wilkes and A. P. Riemer, eds. Studies in Chaucer (Sydney: University of Sydney, 1981), pp. 3-27.
An explication of the MerT and FranT using the Hengwrt manuscript order, the article surveys some critical interpretations of the two tales, concerning the clerical or secular nature of the tellers.
Rogers, H. L.
A. Stephens, and others, eds. Festschrift for Ralph Farrell (Bern: Lang, 1977), pp. 185-200.
TC opens in "high style" comparable with Virgil's "Aeneid" or Milton's "Paradise Lost." This style creates an epic frame for the poem which is sustained by the correlation of Troilus the lover with Troilus the warrior. Donaldson is wrong in…
Rogers, Janine.
Dissertation Abstracts International 60 (1998): 4420A, 1998.
Professional book production and circulation in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, including Chauceriana, present courtly models for gender, eventually affecting rural gentry. The Findern MS revises femininity, and the female voice can be…
Argues that in "The Ancestor's Tale: Richard Dawkins "uses Chaucer's poetics to address interpretative problems with evolution," particularly the "anthropocentric" notion that "humanity is the 'result' of evolution." Dawkins's uses of the frame…
Rogers, Laura Mestayer.
Medieval Feminist Forum 31: 36-43, 2001.
Assessment of Schlauch's career and criticism, focusing on her Chaucer's Constance and Accused Queens (1927; rpt. 1969). Includes a bibliography of Schlauch's publications.
Rogers, Nicholas, ed.
Stamford, Conn.: Paul Watkins, 1993.
Includes five essays on relations between image and text, three on literature, and three on the church and society. For one essay that pertains to Chaucer, search for England in the Fourteenth Century under Alternative Title.
Assesses the paucity of names given to the pilgrims in CT and comments on those that are given; Eglyntine, John (Nun's Priest), Piers (Monk), Harry Bailly (and his wife Goodelief), Huberd, Hodge, Robin, Oswald, Alisoun, and Chaucer himself, who is…
Rogers, Shannon L.
Westfield, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.
Nearly 200 encyclopedia entries on wide-ranging topics, allusions, and sociohistorical contexts, many with illustrations and all with suggestions for further reading. Does not include entries for individual works by Chaucer but surveys them in the…
